Word: honored
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...commissions, one composed of outside experts and the other of graduating cadets, are currently reviewing the West Point honor system to advocate possible changes...
...review was initiated last year after a case in which a cadet, who was applying for a Rhodes Scholarship, was accused of lying to two instructors. The student, Anthony S. Ketron, was expelled by the full honor board and then was reinstated shortly before graduation when two U.S. Representatives asked the Pentagon to overturn the expulsion...
...think the goal here is to see where the honor codes are as we move towards an important milestone and enter our third century," said Andrea R. Hamburger, a West Point official. The hearing process for disciplinary cases was last overhauled in 1977 after numerous cadets were found cheating...
...Pittsburgh President Wesley W. Posvar, is expected to advocate changes in the current system. One revision might include introducing character witnesses later, rather than earlier, in a hearing. The committee also could change the number of votes required to approve a disciplinary action. Ten of 12 members of the honor board currently must approve such a conviction...
...David R. Palmer, superintendent of the Military Academy, who launched the review of the honor code, could not be reached for comment...